Duly noted. Thank you!

@garr Spider+warden = wraith in this mod, but tbh I haven't tested that particular retrofit, should work though

I really wanted such a mod for armour. Like upgrading your Spider suits into Wraith, or EXO into WAR.

@arreen I'm not entirely sure about this, but I think something in LWOTC hard disables breakthroughs - there's probably a workaround or something but that's too intrusive for me. I'm fine with 'easy' mods like this, overwriting other people's exclusions is above my pay grade.

I'd love to see a mod that brings the Breakthrough techs into the LWotC game as basic research or a proving grounds project and maybe also with a good strong resource cost to it.

Still, I appreciate this mod very much. Thank you for making it.

@Zero Sounds like an interesting concept for an addon.

@mrMister

The framework for the mod is relatively simple - it's just a generic tech project for the proving ground that makes ItemTemplate goes in - new ItemTemplate comes out - if you follow the same structure you could make a version of this that handles whatever you want. I just did basic gear, but you could do whatever into whatever if you clone the examples in this mod. Like if you wanted "convert sniper into auto-sniper" or "convert Skulljack into Elerium nuke" or whatever.

I'm just sticking with basic LWOTC gear for this because I want this to stay tight and balanced, but I definitely considered doing fun stuff like 'dead-end retrofits' to unique weapons.

Toyed with an idea of "mag-laser shotgun" - like retrofitting a laser shotgun to mag tier gave you a unique un-upgradable version of the mag shotgun that lost 1 damage but kept the laser +5 aim, but I didn't want to accidently impact meta with my arbitrary valuations.

mh okay i'm interested. gotta admit it's a valid source of annoyance that the old gear has to be sold to the market to avoid inventory clutter.

Of course the "compatible tech only" would make more sense in LW1's context, where T2 is Laser and T4 is Better Laser, but still.

It'd be interesting if there were options to, for instance, only allow laser-> coil and mag->plasma conversions, with some "compatible tech only" justification (the gameplay effect is the point though).

In quite a few runs, this is actually huge. Such a great idea. Im currently rebuilding my mod enviornment after some mod changes knocked it out of whack. This will be a great new run mod. Will post if i run into anything (if i can unwhack my environment sigh....). Thanks for this!